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2015 (4) TMI 888 - HC - CustomsConfiscation of goods u/s 111 - Freezing of bank account - Smuggling of goods - Whether such freezing of bank account is confiscation/seizure of goods - Held that:- Without even the order / notice / direction of freezing of the account and without proper pleadings, and merely on the basis of copies of some documents handed over across the bar, do not deem it appropriate to render any interpretation of Sections 110 and 121 of the Act. Suffice it is to state that from the show cause notice dated 29th November, 2013 issued by the respondent no.2 DRI to the appellant, a case of the monies in the frozen account being sale proceeds of smuggled goods is made out and the said monies are liable to confiscation under Section 121 supra and thus cannot be allowed to be withdrawn unconditionally by the appellant. - appellant has failed to explain the source of the imported goods sale proceeds whereof were credited into the bank account which has been frozen. The onus was/is on the appellant to explain the transactions in the said bank account and to establish that the said transactions were/are not tainted. No endeavour even in that direction has been made. We, at this stage, have thus but to presume that the monies in the bank account which has been frozen, are sale proceeds of smuggled goods. - Decided against assessee.
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